Prevention and fight against the criminality on national and international cultural patrimony objects in the online environment

The cultural patrimony objects have a cultural, historical, artistic value, but also a commercial value. The importance for the humanity patrimony is generated by the cultural, historical, artistic value, but what caused the circulation of the cultural patrimony objects is the trade value which created an antiques market. The potential price of a historical artefact generated by the interest on the market of the cultural patrimony objects has as effect the stimulation of ingress for sale on this market of that artefact or similar cultural patrimony objects. In the past 30 years, the trade of cultural patrimony objects went through an increased development marked by the globalization of the commerce through the ease of the flows based on trade agreements, the increase of the interest for purchases by the collectors and the entry in the digital era. (from „Introduction”)